Filipino star Coco Martin thrills fans in Dubai

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00:00One, two, three, Mr. Coco Martín!

00:11The king of Philippine prime time television Coco Martín and the cast of Filipino television

00:15soap opera FPJ's Ang Probinsyano stormed Dubai as part of a Thanksgiving tour on Saturday

00:21evening at Alnazar Leisureland in a show dubbed Isang Pamilya Tayo.

00:26Thousands of fans coming from different emirates came out to see the award-winning actor.

00:30Coco currently headlines the television soap opera FPJ's Ang Probinsyano which has become

00:35widely popular among Filipino audiences.

00:40Coco, who last visited Dubai in 2012, plays the lead role of policeman Ricardo Cardo de

00:45Lisay in the television adaptation of a 1997 film of the same title top-billed by the late

00:50Fernando Poe Jr. who was revered as king of Philippine movies.

00:54Ang Probinsyano has become an iconic drama series on Philippine television and is also

00:58now one of the longest-running most-watched television soap operas both in and outside

01:03the Philippines.

01:24Also at the show were Coco's co-stars Pepe Herrera, Yassi Pressman, and child actor Onyok.

01:46Singer Daryl Ong also joined the cast in the more than two-hour show, Irish Eden Belleza

01:50for tabloid.